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Tunneling to Freedom

  • In the interview I asked if this was one of those 21st-century digital sweatshops I keep reading about. I was told it was not. I don’t think they understood my question.
  • What the job lacked in creative expression, it compensated for with nervous diarrhea.

    • Oh well…live and learn, kids. I have never named names, and I’m not going to. But to nameless bosses at nameless places everywhere, I leave you with the slave-management advice that Moses gave to Pharaoh: “The strong make many bricks. The weak make few. The dead make none.”

    I think employers and potential nameless bosses everywhere should be required to say, “Upon your employ you may experience, but are not limited to: headaches, nausea, migraines, bouts of severe indigestion, gastric esophageal reflux, insomnia, nervousness, anxiety, panic attacks, incontinence, explosive diarrhea, seizures, coma and perhaps a lonely, slow, painful death.

    Sign Here____”

    I have already paid enough “dues.”